Example sentences for: dei

How can you use “dei” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Nearby is the immense brick and white-marble Gothic Church of the Frari (full name Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, built by the Franciscans), above all celebrated for the high altar adorned with Titian’s jubilant Assumption of the Virgin.

  • Northeast of the bridge, past the Fondaco dei Tedeschi post office, seek out the little 15th-century church of Santa Maria dei Miracoli.

  • Nearby, just outside the ancient wall, the area in front of the railroad station has been named Piazzale dei Partigiani . Luigi Einaudi, the patriarch of postwar Italian politics, President of the Republic from 1948 to 1955, when he was an octogenarian, has the unusual honor of a street named for him in the heart of the city, near the central railway station.

  • A large and boisterous fruit, vegetable and flower market takes place every morning in the Campo dei Fiori, overseen by the statue of philosopher Giordano Bruno.

  • And is the wholesome image of Annette Funicello spoiled for Italian mouseketeers who know about the tormento dei funicelli , or torture of the packthreads, in which 15th-century Neopolitans painfully lashed together the wrists and forearms of their prisoners?


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